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1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Ah the quest to define 'real' gamers.	/r/MensRights	16/11/13 10:23 PM
1	“Girl behavior is the gold standard in schools,” says psychologist Michael Thompson. “Boys are treated like defective girls.” Of course people in authority like their subjects to be obedient and quiet. Girls are just taught this from birth, while boys acting out in a home environment is expected and encouraged. We need to do away with this ruler/subject classroom dynamic. People learn best by interacting, and by seeking knowledge through their own volition- not by sitting and having words spoken at them.	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 11:41 PM
1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. I'm an engineer, I'm familiar with systems, I just get lazy with words sometimes!	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 09:53 PM
1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. few stories are actually enhanced by being a game. Games tell a different kind of story than words! You can't just disregard the immersion and interactivity provided by a game. Portal was an amazing game that would have made for a less-than-exciting story. Also, I really think you're reaching when you're reducing ALL OF PROBLEM-SOLVING to 'competition'. And you're even trying to throw exploration into that same bag, come on! At this point it seems we're just arguing matters of opinion, and hey, …	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 09:48 PM
2	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. No, I do get it! People have developed this stereotype because they only see the super-brights, and ignore the super-dulls. When you eliminate the lower half of the distribution, the obvious conclusion is that boys must be better than girls. However, the study you linked proves that this is not the case! Boys' math abilities have a much higher degree of variance than girls', simple as that.	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 09:42 PM
1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Alright, you got me! Bad wording on my part. What I should have said is that it's entirely possible for gender identity to oppose sex, and while there is a high rate of correlation, the exceptions must also be considered.	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 09:39 PM
1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. What if I told you that nearly half of all gamers are women? What if I told you that the majority of US households plays video games? Like it or not, gaming is no longer the domain of the few and the marginalized. It's exploded as a medium, and it's long outgrown the stereotype of being the nerdy pasttime of socially challenged manchildren.	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 09:37 PM
1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. You do when you're solo queue!	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 09:33 PM
1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. My bad, I just assumed people would know what I meant by gender expression. What I mean by gender expression is- how long do you wear your hair? How tight do you wear your clothes? Do you wear make-up? How do (or don't) you conform to gender norms? For example, a 'butch' lesbian has a female gender identity, but expresses gender in a way that would traditionally be seen as masculine. Intentional 'traps' have male gender identity, but an almost entirely female gender expression. And here is the o…	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 01:30 AM
1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Ah, but that still debunks the old girls-are-bad-at-math idea. According to this article, boys are better at math only insofar as they are worse at it than girls.	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 12:36 AM
-3	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Who says competition simulation has to be against other people? Almost all of these games involve killing people or competing against them in other ways, even if they are NPC's. I would argue that the puzzle/exploration/world immersion/story aspect of most of those games are more significant than the click-to-kill combat system. If you have examples of this "aweful" treatment we can discuss this further. First, an anecdote. My friend presents androgynously online, so she's totally fine most of t…	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 12:16 AM
0	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. but that does nothing to show that there is not a large biological component. And until you've got evidence to prove that there is, I don't see anything wrong with believing that individual difference and cultural conditioning supercede the effects of sex on gender expression.	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 12:01 AM
0	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Why, given cases like David Reimer? I already made the distinction between gender identity and gender expression. The only way to remove gender norms is by forcing a percentage of people to act in a way that is different than they would without the explicit conditioning. Nope, all you have to do is call out stereotypes when they're imposed in a way that influences a person's natural choice. The overriding message should be "do what you want!" not "do what girls/boys do!"	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 12:00 AM
-1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. It doesn't do so directly, but I think it is highly likely that testosterone makes men like video games more because it is a means of faking aggression, risk taking and competition. Like I said to someone else, not all games are competitive/aggressive/etc. (Zelda, Final Fantasy, Portal, Metal Gear Solid...), and even the ones that are have other draws (The single player campaign in CoD4 was pretty great, the characters in League of Legends are visually appealing, you can have a fulfilling WoW ca…	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 11:44 PM
2	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Allow me to clarify: Sex and gender identity are different knobs, and can be set separately.	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 11:31 PM
2	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. I get what you mean, but I'm still of the opinion that individual personality differences and cultural conditioning supercede the effects of sex hormones on a person's preferences. Regardless, gender norms (and expectations of gender expression) are harmful because they confine individuals to certain scripts of behavior, and alienate those who naturally stray from those scripts.	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 11:28 PM
1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. You also have to take any academic study on these issues with a grain of salt, because you get fired for suggesting the opposing point of view. I'll need a citation before I buy that. There being some social reasons that might cause women to be worse at math does not mean that you have eliminated biology as a factor, or even shown that socialization is the largest factor involved. True, but you have provided no articles about the impact of biology on gender expression. Do you think I should take…	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 11:18 PM
2	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. The way the OP is phrased like it is. Is because many things that feminists say is society's fault, might actually be more explained by biology, or AT LEAST personal choice. Oh, so people are only allowed to generalize feminism when you agree with them. For example, some feminists might say that a woman's choice to be a stay at home wife/mother is "internalized misogyny", a result of society and false gender roles. And some feminists would say that a woman's choice to be a stay at home wife/moth…	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 11:14 PM
2	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. You're on point with the distinction between gender identity and sex, but the fact is that gender identity isn't a choice. Like sexuality, gender identity is something you're born with. People have different degrees of rigidity in their gender identities, and people can be questioning (usually a process which involves sorting out socially-impressed perceptions of their gender vs. inborn gender identity), but your gender identity is biologically determined. What you're thinking of is gender expre…	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 10:40 PM
2	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Sorry, you don't get to speak for all feminists, there are many different types of feminists with conflicting, and often contradictory ideologies. Why didn't you point this out to OP? I only mentioned 'rhetoric' and made no attempt to generalize all feminists, while OP said this: The cognitive dissonance is quite interesting. In one breath the SJW's/feminists will say that gender is a social construct and nothing to do with biology. In the next they will claim that a transsexual person's gender …	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 10:34 PM
-6	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. I'm not saying there aren't -reasons- for gendered behavior or stereotypes, just that those reasons aren't biologically encoded. Not all games are competitive, and even the ones that are have other things going for it. As for testosterone's impact on competitiveness, does it really outweigh individual personality differences? Hair is a natural part of female adulthood. They might have less of it than men, but definitely more than children of either gender. Logically speaking, hairlessness should…	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 10:19 PM
2	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Here is an article that links to at least three other articles which elucidate purely social reasons for girls underperforming in math. I'm interested in any articles you might have about strictly biological effects on the math gender gap.	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 10:16 PM
4	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. My point is that gender identity is inherent and trans-friendly feminist rhetoric affirms this. This fact is NOT mutually exclusive with the idea that gender expression is socially cultivated.	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 09:52 PM
4	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Gender identity is determined by biology, but independently of sex. There is a high rate of correlation between gender identity and sex, which is why most people are cis-gendered, but transgender people DO exist, and shouldn't be ignored. Gender expression is influenced by biology insofar as people of a certain sex are generally influenced by estrogen or testosterone. These effects, I think, take a backseat to cultural conditioning- guys aren't biologically opposed to wearing dresses, just as gi…	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 08:53 PM
0	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Testosterone makes people more aggressive and willing to take risks. It also encourages muscle growth. It doesn't make people play video games or hate pink any more than estrogen makes women shave their legs.	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 08:47 PM
1	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. I don't see how this is relevant to what I said.	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 08:36 PM
-13	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. There's a difference between gender expression and gender identity.	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 07:33 PM
11	Gender is a social construct? David Reimer was raised as a girl after a failed circumcision. He killed himself in 2004 after a 40 year experiment in gender fluidity. Gender expression is a social construct. Gender identity is inherent.	/r/MensRights	30/10/13 07:30 PM